Monday, October 3, 2011

October Movie Challenge: Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla

Last night I was really busy so I popped in something I had laying around.
My oldest son is a big Godzilla fan and I remember the old Godzilla movies scaring the crap out of me as a kid so I watched one.

In truth I have never seen this one before. I had seen bits an pieces of it here and there. My son loves to watch it when he is at home sick. He even curls up on the couch with his stuffed Space Godzillia and we even used his Space Godzilla figure in D&D once as a huge demon. But the movie itself? Never watched it all the way through.

First off it was not as bad as the net would have you believe. But it is not very good either.

I almost hesitate to call this one horror. There are a lot of horror elements here, but in truth it is more Sci-Fi or even Fantasy.
True, two giant monsters fighting (well three and half, Mothera and Baby Godzilla. Four if you count Mecha Godzilla/MOGUERA) is scary. But is it horror?

Plot, in a nutshell, Godzilla cells get sent into space where a new monster is formed, aka Space Godzilla. Then what happens is the same for most G movies. Godzilla and monster fight a few times. New Monsters seems to be kicking Godzilla's ass. Godzilla comes back in the end to destroy new Monster. The only people that loose anything are the poor people of Tokyo who get to watch their city trampled again. This throws in Mothera, a new Mecha Godzilla like robot/mecha and the ever annoying Baby Godzilla.

In the end this movie just seemed to have too much going on. Maybe it is because it has been translated or maybe I am outside of the demographic now.

My wife wants to watch a classic monster movie now. Something with a vampire or werewolf. I think that is where I'll go next.

Oh lord, I have to watch that movie for the title alone. That's AWESOME! Thanks for sharing, I'd never heard of it. As for vampires and werewolves, I'm a fan of the classics - Nosferatu and The Wolfman (the original, not the remake).